An NGO says Mohammed Kanjo Hassan sentenced thousands of people to death. He was arrested by Syria's new authorities, ...

The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities committed under ...

In addition to the deadly tactics used to terrify people into submission, more sinister weapon was also in Assad’s toolbox.

A Syrian family that survived a 2013 chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people near the country's capital, ...

Assad’s wife Asma has filed for divorce from the former Syrian leader in what is believed to be a bid to flee their exile in ...

Now that Syria has fallen, chances of finding others alive appear to be 'very limited', expert tells The National ...

Human rights activists and war crimes lawyers have long been trying to build cases against President Bashar al Assad’s regime ...

A transformation has started to take place in the week since the unexpected overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Assad.

The U.S. Embassy in Syria is urging Americans inside the war-torn country to flee immediately or prepare to "shelter in place for extended periods." The warning comes as the "security situation in ...

A rebel force deployed to a village in southeastern Damascus on Sunday to stop looters who swarmed a residential complex in ...

The danger now is that, at this site and others, vital evidence is just lying around, unprotected. Without efforts to secure sites like this, there’s a risk of losing essential evidence needed to ...

Sheikh, who oversaw Syria’s infamous Adra Prison from 2005 to 2008 under recently ousted President Bashar Assad, was charged ...